2 North Rockland board members skip 10 meetings

But absent officials allowed to stay

11:48 PM,
Mar. 19, 2013

Written by

Two of the seven members of the North Rockland Board of Education have missed 10 of the 23 meetings so far this fiscal year.

They are Elliot Gillies of Pomona and James Kraus of Stony Point, according to the 2012-13 meeting attendance records obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request by The Journal News.

Other school boards in Rockland County have members who missed a number of meetings. But having two members on the board who missed more than 40 percent of the meetings makes North Rockland unusual. ...